Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story.

Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS remains Jules Verne"s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story.Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyre--all the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every means of transportation known in the 1870s, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS generated enchantment with scientific progress--and its delightful mixture of fantasy,comedy, and dazzling suspense has kept it a perennially superb entertainment.

1.In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each

  other, the one as master, the other as man

2.In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at

  last found his ideal

3.In which a conversation takes place which seems likely

  to cost Phileas Fogg dear

4.In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his

  servant

5.In which a new species of funds, unknown to the

  moneyed men, appears on "Change

6.In which Fix, the detective, betrays a very natural

  impatience

7.Which once more demonstrates the uselessness of

  passports as aids to detectives

8.In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps,

  than is prudent

9.In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean prove

  propitious to the designs of Phileas Fogg

10.In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off

  with the loss of his shoes

11.In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of

  conveyance at a fabulous price

12.In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture

  across the Indian forests, and what ensued

13. In which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune

favours the brave

14. In which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the

beautiful valley of the Ganges without ever thinking

of seeing it

15. In which the bag of bank-notes disgorges some thousands

of pounds more

16. In which Fix does not seem to understand in the least

what is said to him

17. Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore

to Hong Kong

18. In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each

about his business

19. In which Passepartout takes a too great interest in his

master, and what comes of it

20. In which FIX comes face to face with Phileas Fogg

21. In which the master of the "Tankadere" runs great

risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds

22. In which Passepartout finds out that, even at the

antipodes, it is convenient to have some money in

one"s pocket

23. In which Passepartout" s nose becomes outrageously long

24. During which Mr. Fogg and party cross the Pacific

Ocean

25. In which a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco

26. In which Phileas Fogg and party travel by the Pacific

Railroad

27. In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty

miles an hour, a course of Mormon history

28.In which Passepartout does not succeed in making

  anybody listen to reason

29.In which certain incidents are narrated which are only

  to be met with on American railroads

30.In which Phileas Fogg simply does his duty

31.In which Fix the detective considerably furthers the

  interests of Phileas Fogg

32.In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle

  with bad fortune

33.In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the

  occasion

34.In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London

35.In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his

  orders to Passepartout twice

36.In which Phileas Fogg"s name is once more at a

 premium on "Change

37.In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by

  his tour around the world, unless it were happiness